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Contentstack, Lytho, IMatch, Amplience

Side by side on what we have verified on each vendor’s own pages. Where a fact was not checked, the table says so rather than leaving a blank that reads as “no”.

What decides it · Runs on your own servers

If the files genuinely cannot leave your infrastructure, this is not a close race — the platforms marked No below should not be on the call at all.

Contentstack

No

Lytho

No

IMatch

Yes

Amplience

No

Everything else

Contentstack
Lytho
IMatch
Amplience
Verdict
Not checked
Not checked
Not checked
Not checked
Price published
No
No
No
No
Billed on
Quoted per customer
Team size, product mix and configuration
Perpetual licence, no subscription
Content volume, storage and depth of automation
Deployment
Cloud
Cloud
On-premise
Cloud
Free plan
Yes
No
No
No
Free trial
No
No
Yes
No
Transparency index
30%
10%
60%
10%
Most common complaint
A free start exists, but the terms for moving to a paid tier are not on the page
The tiers are named but cannot be compared on cost
Windows only, so it is out of the question for a team on Macs
Neither tiers nor ranges

“Not checked” means exactly that: we have not verified it, not that the platform lacks it. Every other value was read off the vendor’s own pages on the date shown on each platform page.

What to ask on the demo

One question per platform, drawn from what actually goes wrong with it — not a generic checklist. Vendors run the demo; this hands the agenda back to you.

Contentstack A free start exists, but the terms for moving to a paid tier are not on the page — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
Lytho The tiers are named but cannot be compared on cost — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
IMatch Windows only, so it is out of the question for a team on Macs — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
Amplience Neither tiers nor ranges — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

No email required — the page prints as it stands.